Buquoysk Quotes & Sayings

Protagoras did not know if the gods exist, but he held in any case they ought to be worshiped. Philosophy, according to him, had nothing edifying to teach, and for the survival of morals we must rely upon the thoughtlessness of the majority and their willingness to believe what they had been taught. — Bertrand Russell

Be intentional and purposeful in your calling — Sunday Adelaja

To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex. — Lily Tomlin

I TEACH YOU THE SUPERMAN. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? All — Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is only fair for the Dead, who get what they want because they want nothing. — Isaac Marion

We Irish have a gift for resignation. Or, put another way, fatalism." He — Emma Donoghue

Look up, you whose gaze is fixed on this earth, who are spellbound by the little events and changes on the face of the earth. Look up to these words, you who have turned away from heaven disappointed. Look up, you whose eyes are heavy with tears and who are heavy and who are crying over the fact that the earth has gracelessly torn us away. Look up, you who, burdened with guilt, cannot lift your eyes. Look up, your redemption is drawing near. something different from what you see daily will happen. Just be aware, be watchful, wait just another short moment. Wait and something quite new will break over you: God will come. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It was as though an animated image of death carved out of old ivory had been shaking its hand with menaces at a motionless crowd of men made of dark and glittering bronze. — Joseph Conrad

The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea. — Larry Kramer

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both. — Lord Chesterfield

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. — Warren Buffett

Teatime put a comforting arm around his shoulders. "Don't worry," he said. "I'm on your side. A violent death is the last thing that'll happen to you. — Terry Pratchett

A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed. — Joseph John Thomson

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of the earth, for the labours of men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference among the future widening of knowledge: a spot where the definiteness of early memories may be inwrought with affection, and kindly acquaintance with all neighbors, even to the dogs and donkeys, may spread not by sentimental effort and reflection, but as a sweet habit of the blood. — George Eliot

As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal. — Guy Finley